Monument record 0401000000 - PITSTONE QUARRY NO 2

Summary

Late Iron Age and Roman settlements recorded in excavation - An Iron Age to Romano British enclosure with pottery and brooches was excavated by the Manshead Archaeological Society. A cobbled area and a mass of Roman pottery was also found. Two unusual features of Roman date were also found.

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SETTLEMENT (Late Iron Age to 5th Century Roman - 100 BC? to 409 AD?)

Description

QUARRY OPERATIONS REVEALED 2 DITCHED ENCLOSURES: 1 IMMEDIATELY PRE-ROMAN, THE OTHER ROMAN. TOPSOIL REMOVAL LEFT SUBSOIL FEATURES (PITS, DITCHES, WELL) & COBBLED AREA (B1-2,5). COPIES OF SITE PLANS &C AT BCM. ALSO SLIDES (B3). IRONWORK FROM SITE AT BCM? (B2). RE-ASSESSMENT & RECORDING OF SITE (B5).

SP 944143. An Iron Age ditched enclosure which yielded lots of Belgic pottery and brooches and continued well into Roman times was excavated by the Manshead Arch. Soc. A cobbled area with no defineable boundary but with Roman debris in the cobbling was also noted. A mass of Roman pottery was found in the enclosing ditch. The odd features about this site were two tanks. One was pit with thick clay lining, the other a square of continuous posts which seem to be an above ground tank. They were about 6' square (B6).

This record includes National Record of the Historic Environment Information provided by Historic England on 4 June 2025 licensed under the Open Government Licence.

Sources (7)

<1>SBC8245 Unpublished document: L Matthews. 1977. DRAFT EXCAVATION REPORT & PLANS & SECTIONS.
<2>SBC7436 Verbal communication: LEVY D 1977(JULY) PERS COMM.
<3>SBC534 Verbal communication: ARP 1977 (NOV) VISIT TO PITSTONE SOC MUSEUM (& SEE PLANS &C, CAS FILE).
<4>SBC6546 Verbal communication: HURMAN MRS BM 1980(APRIL) PERS COMM.
<5>SBC4427 Unpublished document: DUNGWORTH D 1991 PITSTONE: AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL PARISH SURVEY PP54-69 (COPY IN CAS FILE 2746).
<6>SBC29394 Unpublished document: C L Matthews. 1975. Letter from C L Matthews, 6.2.75.
<7>SBC27441 Digital archive: Historic England. National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE). Insert 1999.

Location

Grid reference	Centred SP 9435 1430 (200m by 170m)
Civil Parish	PITSTONE, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Related Events/Activities (3)

Event - Survey: (EBC14242)
Event - Intervention: Excavation: Folly Farm, Tring (EBC10730)
Event - Intervention: Excavation: UPPER ICKNIELD WAY (QUARRY 2) (EBC10877)

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Mar 25 2026 4:11PM